New Delhi, July 3 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested a resident of Gujarat's Ahmedabad in a human trafficking case for illegally sending Indian citizens abroad since 2015.

Bharatkumar Rambhai Patel alias Bobby Patel was arrested under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002.

ED said its investigation revealed that Patel, alongwith others, was engaged in sending desirous Indian nationals abroad illegally for exorbitant consideration on the basis of bogus or fabricated documents for getting visas of different countries with duplicate or bogus passports used as genuine by impersonating the passengers wrongly.

ED's Ahmedabad zonal office arrested Patel and produced him before the Special Judge (PMLA) in the city. ...